join below to see a movie that's the great way to go to the grand imperial through the george weston to school until you can a little closer to the to see don't need to go publicly and read this in the can and will search as a retreat. in the headlines of this week on our t.v. cracks appeared between politicians and police over how riots in the u.k. have been handled prime minister david cameron and now turns to u.s. experience for help while fed up local communities turns a vigilante. three years on south especially i remember the victims of a short but point georgia launch an attack against its breakaway republic how we meet the people trying to rebuild their lives. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasured that score gets the chop it sent in the world markets into a state of chaos. of

the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me. well this week split opened up between police and top politicians in britain it followed several days of rioting and looting throughout the country prime minister david cameron has slammed the cops for their poor handling of the crisis and even turning to a prominent us law enforcer for advice on preventing street violence gun rest was triggered by the fatal police shooting of a twenty nine year old man and the ensuing peaceful protests which turned violent protesters started smashing shop windows and setting fire to cause i'm buildings leading to widespread copycat violence over two thousand or arrests have been made so far in connection with the disorder london based journalist i should have written some says the underlying cause of the chaos was the widening disconnect between the u.k. gov. and. this is completely in crisis and the motivations

. of the central one of course is inequality and civic life it's a big institutions that are completely out of touch whether it be the media replace force or politicians themselves but david cameron who went through a period of expensive schools in the country has no knowledge of the huge and insecurities and inequalities that raged right across this country the idea of david cameron calling the police force massive thirty cuts here shrinking the economy to grow it as a sort of mass religion together with a mass consumerist religion here wanting to buy more and more expensive goods as a force. and with looks into a blame game with politicians or groups in local communities took it into their own hands to reclaim the streets from looters. for. a good result could sure

use a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that it can a day opposite effect but they're going to get every weapon started checking out stories of what young children are some of the children on the streets whether beside me if there's no enough police then move help them out and just give everyone a wage the cost to the shops and in this push them away basically we don't want to go after anyone or root cause any trouble we just want a much shorter no one comes in specially no shops open you know routes and it's not just in enfield in other parts of town sikhs have banded together to protect their

livelihoods and property sons and daughters come together with us and say that so work the problems with out on to violence and force and disperse to each other which then takes it over causing the violence in the streets. this is the current face of communities across england many of which felt under siege from looters and said in their darkest hour the police were nowhere to be seen police have not been anywhere where the police if the police were getting all that would be in town maybe this is what david cameron means when he talks constantly about the big society handing power and responsibility pack to local communities and i think the scenes we all saw television screens last night of community. it's coming together in birmingham to try and stop violence taking place was a model of how these things should be done that despite the fact that three young asian men were killed in birmingham early on wednesday trying to protect local

businesses looters allegedly rams them with a car the tragedy ignited anger in the asian community a vigilante band attracts all sorts and more pentel it doesn't just rear its head in looters this is huge number of police officers on the streets of england at the moment which many find reassuring but groups like the enfield army proved that communities still feel police are unable to protect them and with budget cuts for frontline officers still on the table bodies on the beat could get fewer and further between was local vigilante we could take up the slack your emmett's r.t. london. and those are taking part in the weeks lawlessness in britain have been using social networks extensively to coordinate their actions and elude police in response and david cameron has said he's considering banning any people from those networks if they are guilty of inciting violence through the web but london based

political activist chris knight says that just highlights of blatant case of double standards when it comes to you shoot for freedom of speech. if it needs a revolution to enforce the rule of law so be it the rule of law can't be enforced it's one law for the rich and one for the poor the rule of law means the same law for everyone is just so ironic having celebrated a facebook revolution the social media the twitter revolution across north africa and the arab world suddenly. decided to crack down on the media here it is absolutely not be a serious serious human quality the issue is is is there i mean what kind of society are we that drives a. fourteen year old kids to that. mental state you know to burn a local store that that we need action we believe we need action not weasel politicians words. and another nation locked into street protests that have syria but what actions the government there appears ready to take to find

a compromise can stop the months of bloodshed. and a list of your outlook and skirts shorter as countries are spurred by the debt contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of south ossetia the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives the moral services have been held across the republic of the biggest in the south as if he was capital. hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory parties may be a cauldron of reports from the public but the scars are still fresh from what happened in august two thousand and eight. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i knew i would lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years

they say sidney has come to the cemetery in self-assertive where her son is peretz five days in august two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. case is as when her son a medical college graduate heard they were public's capital team vall was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian isle to resume firing line case just as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house surrounded by families with similar tragic stories. in the towns across the street lives of newman who lost two children into the house opposite lives the man who lost his. wife and his child. will all these people are of the terms of georgia's military aggression in august two thousand and eight when

you try to retake control of the breakaway republic of south ossetia a russian peacekeeping mission in the region also came under fire nursed my abuse dive i was on duty with them and witnessed average things that happened that night for its. own fire when you know it was going to be our last night but it was still carried out peacekeeping mission and try to become. more school sound trained force and to protect its citizens and prevent more civilian deaths within five days georgian troops had been repelled three weeks later russia recognized south and said he has independence. the last three years have changed the face of this thursday i new residential air where new roads sharp and have been in new strategy and have been built but signs of the conflict remain destroying behind my back are all that's left a good russian impulse for those who lived through the horrors of the brief but

dowdney conflict the memories are still there we roll. it in a question all our reporting from c involves author says here. that i find out how people in south assert here are trying to restore their lives so we have a special report on r.t. a little bit later today. the history of this place runs through the centuries. a paradise for archeologists zoo ologists to logical tourists. was one fateful night shots destroyed the harmony of life. how this will publish its lifetime. hoping dreaming and recreate.

your watching of the weekly here on our t.v. it's good to have you with us today it's been one of the most turbulent weeks in years for the world's financial markets the spark was an unprecedented downgrade of america's long treasured triple a rating standard and poor's rating agency behind them it says it made the decision based on the paralyzing hostility of various u.s. political factions but officials allege that the company's calculations were wrong and point to reports of rampant insider trading that's as obama unveils plans to target the country's defense spending long considered a taboo despite the country's fourteen trillion dollar debt and for huffington post a columnist eric margolis it's america's it almost was spending it is the root of the problem. it's mainstays for being under invaded great peril from outside powers will not be too much too early for her friends but we're

not paying for defense right now where people all sense in the sense that america's military operations are all around we're also not too many americans understand is that the costs. were never equal the tax it's arguably good on the us national credit card. that's one of the reasons we were dad's truly a girl in his gruelling if americans had paid for the course these foreign wars and military sounds from out of their taxes i think it would be a big change public opinion. be you already struggling with its own crisis also took a major hit from the downgrade a matter of sell off across the block to fears that a staple french society in general may be at risk of insolvency something the bank denies and artie's own financial guru max keiser has a strong doubts over the stability of the french banking system. the french banks

are loaded with types of derivatives that were sold to them by american investment banks and the american investment banks plus the rating agencies plus their hedge funds are now attacking these french banks they know where the bodies are buried and their years in the weapons that they sold them to attack them are starting to enter our own b.n.p. and credit agricole are insolvent their balance sheets are six to ten times bigger in terms of the debt that they carry than they could possibly service but it's carried on the shadow banking system they don't report this debt but the insiders around the world who wield the weapons of mass financial destruction are tacking them to force these on realize that are there a balance sheet to force this peloponnese into delinquency into a foreclosure because they are going to reap billions of dollars attacking these cracks the side generale it is an insolvent institution so as b.n.p. they can't possibly meet their their the credit demands an absolutely not. since

its inception with me no shortage of applicants wanting to join the once early to euro currency club but that all changed with the start of the debt plague sweeping across the u. i was artie's alexi your ski reports watching the euro tumble has offered all hopefuls a fresh perspective. while parts of europe have been teetering on the edge of economic abyss who has remained stable in the storm along with this currency. there is a widespread belief in the country that being outside the euro has helped keep poland out of trouble. if we were part of the eurozone then we would have been obliged to help countries like greece and portugal but how can we help out someone else without solving our own problems it's almost guaranteed a prices would go up if we join the euro zone which would damage my business recent opinion polls suggest that more than sixty percent of tools want to keep their own currency a dramatic or iran through just a few years back. few years ago the euro was seen as the euro club was seen as

something very exclusive polls aspired to that they wanted a country control now the name of the euro has been sullied by the troubles in greece and italy polls don't want to be dragged into this crisis if the government forced the euro issue tried to bring poland. it could be political suicide poland has fared much better than many of its e.u. partners in the global crisis several countries like greece ireland and portugal are on the brink of disaster partly due to a boring binge allowed to your membership and associated low interest rates being outside the euro zone members pulled could not join the party but now it does not have the hangover poland was meant to have the euro by next year the time when the country is co-hosting the twentieth well european football championship but with the latest developments these plans may be shelved for another four years either

you rule say poland is obliged to adopt the euro once it meets the economic rules for joining but politicians are now much cooler on the idea with ministers saying the eurozone needs to get its house in order first place very important for us. the need for institutional changes in g. i mean these economic governance of eurozone. crisis management tensions we've seen some need for action in the euro zone before. target date will be a again set up the game has changed and the euro everyone once wanted to join may now be the invitation no one wants to accept. r.t. because you from warsaw in poland. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and still had me this hour when building houses means building tension this peace

talks are further into the background as israel starts a new building project just weeks before the u.n. discusses the recognition of a palestinian state. and when the threats of tougher laws don't work russian parents do whatever it takes to protect their children from pedophiles slipping through their legal. at least nineteen are reported to have been killed in the port city of latakia where the syrian military has launched its latest crackdown on anti-government protesters warships are reportedly shelling residential districts in the key port city which was once a popular tourist spot the arab nations are also lining up against the government crackdown on civilians demanding the violence stops immediately international pressure is also now the syrian leadership and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton calling for economic and political ties with the country to be cut patrick swayze from the online of political magazine spike believes president assad is ignoring the people of his own party. clamping down on

freedom of speech freedom of expression which is the cornerstone of any democracy is not sending out a message to the syrian people that he can be taken seriously or trusted in his promise is a tool there is a sense from a really ease by which he started to say this is the end of you know single party rule and he will start to think about elections and the way in which he previously portrayed himself and his party as the only guarantors of the syrian stability but is now talking about major constitutional reforms i mean really there's a real uncertainty about what he's trying to do this is i guess messiah is a seems very ties that he almost willing to relinquish power at the moment but i think there's a reluctance to want to relinquish power because i suspect. he is very worried he will meet the same treatments that summer barack is now seeing. another conflict in

the arab world and new clashes between pro and anti kadafi forces are up to do in the coastal town of as are we are in libya a government spokesman says that fifty rebels trying to take the town were swapped by troops taking that we may have cut off the capital which is just about fifty kilometers away the conflicts been raging now for six months and thousands of lives have been lost despite nato intervention and so kind of chandan who recently returned from a monitoring mission in libya says there are some nato members that libyan oil could be lucrative. this whole nato aggression on libya is looking increasingly embarrassing for the nato countries so it's not just a question of recognizing the benghazi actually i think it's quite clear now it's it's a race for nato not only to save its own face in trying to extricate itself out of the mess that they've put themselves into but also it's a race to who's going to be the first to kiss off its hand because now when it's

really about the default in the eurozone and even the president united states on this incredible historic times we're living in warning that the dollar could default world those billions of of welcome drugs from libya and investments could could come in very handy especially for someone like berlusconi in italy. who work in the weekly who are an artsy on this sunday now two policemen in the russian and you're also being arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from a pedophile it's just the latest in a series of crimes where police and judges seem to be turning a blind eye to child abuse and as artie's and jerry have pushed coco reports of theirs for forcing parents rather to deal with the problem themselves. and mother in grief. i even thought of buying a pistol and shooting him myself i simply don't know how else to protect my family live on the first floor with curtains constantly drawn i go to work every day see a fear of my daughter nature and you watch it. it was hard for an idea to admit she

trusted someone who harms her daughter she brought the man into the house is a common law husband to live side by side with him for more than nine news on the so-called my daughter told me he thought a stray cat on the roof and said he did the same to her and she had a confided in me about the things i was doing to her when i finally managed to get things to the poor to the jury acquitted the man who she says is now after her family hungry for it and his experience is just one example of the many in a recent controversial piece a man suspected of raping a seven year old girl was released without charge. us at the law for underwear and she started crying i squeezed her neck and pressed her into the ground it only took a couple of minutes then i told her to go home and tell no one. only after an enraged crowd only the men police launch a full fledged investigation into the case and i would have compassion authorities

also disciplined the original interesting meeting officer will summarize this very those were the words that happen here as the mother was afraid it would be a football she was kept around from office to office a tragedy had happened to her shouldn't know what to do what no one wanted to even talk to her were alone except her statement and when they really knew russian authorities have normally closed a fight against sexual abuse of minors results seem to have the media with estimates claiming thousands still fall victim in attempt to put things right activists have started taking matters into their own hands i'm underage that's fine i. small boys and would love to kiss you and hug you and so many other things to you the studio has been put together by a group of aunties as they track people they believe are paedophiles and they go online pretending to be an underage boy or girl and they set up meetings with people like me to prepare in minors the idea is to film their faces and expose them

on the web to google for what is simply a group of people who decided to fight this evil in their own way because our families live in this city our children walk in these parks and we don't want them ever to meet those perverts with him but if they try to act within the law which often operate and it's edge volunteers dragging people's online say most people will sign off when they learn the person they're chatting to is under-age but they also say probably over one hundred contacts one is said to be looking for easy prey can be the maximum sentence for child sex and as this is twenty years in prison an amendment to the law is meant to introduce tougher penalties including life in prison and conditional chemical castration but until the changes are implemented and proven to be effective the activists say well continue with their thinking and they can be scary but actually. that's good to have you with us on this sunday

there are no one to acquire nuclear weapons as they have no place in the twenty first century the words of president mahmoud ahmadinejad who spoke exclusively to r.t. is cut about. are you saying that at some point in the future you may want to acquire a nuclear deterrent a nuclear weapon how did your never never uses an inhuman weapon our religion says it is prohibited and we are religious people what with any country tries to build a nuclear bomb in fact they waste their money i was overseas and they create great danger they themselves the international equations are not a term and by nuclear arsenals today the americans have nuclear bombs and nuclear. and could they win in iraq and afghanistan could their nuclear weapons help the israelis to gain. nuclear weapons help the former soviet union from collapse. and we've got an extended version of that interview our next hour you can also

watch the full interview with the iranian president of course on our web site that's r.t. dot com also on line for you today treasure hunting. dives into the deep to shed light on the fate of an historic site known as of russia's atlantis to find out what the prime minister found at the bottom of the sea at r.t. top card. found a look at the man who made it on to the u.k. rich list yet those must go one billion dollars that is one for for all those details on life. welcome back here with r.t. live from moscow israel is this week approved at the building of sixteen hundred new homes in east jerusalem on land the palestinians consider to be theirs call the

decision provocative with just a few weeks left before the security council is expected to vote over the recognition of the palestinian administration within nine hundred sixty seven borders peace talks between the two sides have stalled since last year after the construction of israeli homes in the west bank and as analysts baskin told us the compromise is now being pushed even further away. this is not a time when it seems likely that israelis and palestinians will be moving toward the peace talks and that the americans will be leading the way the main issue that is block to return to negotiations is the continued settlement building. by the government of israel let's face it the government of israel feels pretty immune to any criticism around the world right now on this issue everyone is busy with a global financial crisis and we all know that mr netanyahu has a lot more support in the american congress than he does even in his own parliament so this will just be another is really an act of building more settlements within

neighborhoods of east jerusalem without anyone really blinking and it's not going to help the situation it's not going to hurt it much more than it's already hurting . you're watching the weekly here on our c n n let's just pause for a moment and check out some of today's top stories from around the world a hotel explosion has killed twelve people and injured more than twenty others in the southwestern pakistan by the blast reducing the building to rubble and rescuers are still clearing debris in the search for survivors police have already arrested two men who left the hotel's restaurant just before the bomb went off the violence plagued region is believed to be home to many taliban insurgents however nobody has claimed responsibility for this explosion yet. egypt's foreign interior minister faces trial again charged with the ordering of the killing rather protesters during the uprising the top of the country's president the public hate figure denies all charges though if convicted he will get a death sentence six other acts officials accuse of being responsible for civilian

deaths are also involved thought demonstrations are growing into a full scale revolution started in egypt this january more than a hundred protesters were killed by police. at least five people were killed forty injured after a stage collapse at a fair in the u.s. state of indiana the accident happened on saturday night during stormy weather when strong winds caused the stage rigging for the outdoor concert to fall according to witnesses many people suffered head and neck injuries and broken bones. all right i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment do stay with us here on r.t. .

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